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o MEDFOgD ftI "SitBLV. ftEORD. OREGON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1962 Physicians Warn Against 'Magic' Use of Hypnosis By JOHN BARNETT United Press International San Francisco -(1JPD- In the yellow pages of the telephone directory, you are likely to find an advertisement like this: "Hypnosis. All personal problems and undesirable hab its. Weight control. Marital problems." Carefully, the practitioners who place such ads avoid specific claims that their hyp notic ministrations can cure anything. But the intimation is there and it draws untold thousands into their "clinics," "foundations," "schools" and "centers." The results may well be beneficial. But, according to the California Medical associa tion, (CMA), they also may be disastrous. Hypnosis has tremendous appeal. It seems almost magi cal in its effect on all sorts of problems from nail-biting to sexual maladjustment. Entertainment Indeed, hypnosis has been popular for centuries as a sort of magic performed by enter tainers who put subjects to sleep, make them stiff as boards or induce them to crow like roosters or bark like dogs. Recognizing this appeal, the California Medical association Is campaigning to educate the public about what hypnosis can and cannot do. It wants laws to back up the known facts about hypnosis. These, the CMA says, amount to this: Hypnosis is an apparently useful tool, but one that should be handled with extreme care. K can be emotional dynamite. The California campaign is part of a national effort by responsible therapists to drive charlatans from the practice of hypnosis. Dr. Alfred Auerback, a San Francisco psychiatrist and a member of the CMA mental health committee, is among those urging legal control of hypnotism. "Hypnosis," as he describes it, "seems to be a useful tech nique about which we know too little." When used for such prob lems as overeating, smoking, drinking and bed -wetting. Auerback said, it often ap pears to be successful. Not True Cure "But hypnotism does not remove tne problem, he said. "It merely removes the symp tom. The individual remains essentially the same. His trou ble is likely to break out in some other form." Thus, he said, there have been cases where a hypnotism patient stopped overeating and took up nail-biting, where a woman cured of hysterical blindness stabbed her boy friend. In one case, described by Dr. Harold Rosen of Baltimore in the American Medical as sociation Journal, a woman was "cured" of compulsive chain-smoking through hyp nosis. But she began overeating, and gained 40 pounds. "Cured" of this by the same method, she became a heavy drinker. It is as an anesthetic that hypnosis presently appears to be most useful, Auerback said. "There's no doubt of its value in relieving pain when used, for instance, by den tists," he said. "It has also been used in open heart sur gery, in delivery of babies and in setting fractures." Portland School Budget Approved Portland - WD - The Port land School District's pro posed S37, 161.300 budget for 1A62-63 has been approved at a hearing before the Multnomah County Tax Su pervising and Conservation commission. The main source of in creased revenue will be the 6 per cent allowable annual hike in the tax levy. The school board will seek another tax levy to replace the two-year levy after 1962-63. fr " f 1 i I . . -A S.W.' il Hi ti limn ! iV l( H i --T-tr4- i tl FIRST DRINK Two-year-old Devra West, Miami, Fla., recently got her first real taste of that dark watery liquid which adults seem to drink by the gallon. Pictured here, from left to right, are her reactions to this new (and quick ly forgotten) experience: (1) Please Mommie? I'll be good. (2) Do you really drink this stuff? (3) And to think, I was so anxious . . . what a letdown. (4) Well , , , even little people can get their faces dirty sometimes . . . even if I was just drinking coffee. (UPI) The Medical Roundup Etnerltm Consultant In Medlrlnt Mayo Clinic Emerltut Pmfessor of Medicine Mayo clinic (Register and Trlhun Syndicate. 1962) 'HI , MA la. ' 'V Ml Varicose Veins. Hundreds of women write asking what to do for their varicose veins, and usually I cannot an swer, if only because I don't know how severe their trouble is, or in what stage it is. I don't know if, in the past, they have had Alvare. a p'llebius (an inflammatioh of the inside of the vein) which perhaps caus ed it to be largely plugged up with a clot of blood. Later, such a plug is likely to have channels formed through it, something like the holes in a Swiss cheese, and through these channels the blood goes. Thousands of women get by for years with varicose veins which do not boiher them - except perhaps cosmetically. The woman hates the sight of them. Especially if, by evening, she gets swelling of the an kles, or if she gets some pain in the leg on walking, she would do well to try to find a vein expert in some big medi cal center. He can tell how much damage has been done to her veins; he can see if the valves which normally help the blood to keep going up the leg are breaking down; and he can decide whether an op eration is advisable right then, or if it will be necessary soon er or later. The expert often says, "You had better have your veins operated on now before you get into more ser ious trouble with them." Today, the operation of var icose veins is not a serious one. The surged makes a lit tle cut over one end of a vein; he takes an instrument which consists of a ring on the end of a long strong wire. He fits the ring around the cut end of the dilr.ted vein, and then pushes it along the vein, strip ping it from its surrounding tissues. When the metal ring has gone as far a, it can go, the surgeon makes another little cut, through which he lifts out the stripped vein. Often, it is necessary to tie the large vein in the groin. This operation forces the Accumulator Said Indecisive Person But Not Collector Hemorrhoids Cured Painlessly By Non-Surgical Method "The non-surgical, elec tronic method for treatment of Hemorrhoids (Piles) de veloped by doctors of the Beji-Oiicr Sandy Blvd. Clinic has been so success ful and permanen in nature that the following policy is offered their patients:"After 11 symptoms of Hemor rhoids . . . have subsided and the patient has been die charged, if he should ever have a recurrence, all further treatments will be given ab solutely free." Patients experience little, if any pain. Their treatment requires no hospitalization and does not employ drugs or injections. VC'rite today for a free, descriptive booklet, yours without obligation: The Bcal-Oliver Sandy Blvd. Clinic, Chiropractic Physi cians, 2026 N. E. Sandy Blvd., Portland 12, Oregon. (Advertttttntel) blood to go up the thigh in the deep veins, rather than in those that were just under the skin. The advantage of this is that the deep veins are sur rounded by muscles which on contracting - as they do in walking - tend to push the blood up the leg and thigh. The person whose ankle (or ankles) swells badly after a day on his feet can take the swelling down at night by sleeping with his legs slight ly raised. He should take a cushion off the davenport, and should put it under the lower end of his mattress. This causes the blood to flow more easily from t ie ankle to the groin, and as a result, in the morning the ankles are generally normal in size. Trouble with one's veins is naturally much worse in the case of a person whose occu pation causes him or her to stand all day, like a clerk be hind a counter, or traffic po liceman on his corner. The disease is less dangerous for the man or woman who sits for much of the day. Curiously, however, many people with bad veins get into a little trouble when they have to sit for a few hours in the seat of an airplane or a sports car. The edge of the seat presses on the tissues of the back of the leg, and this pressure interferes with the return of the blood from the thigh into the body. Many people with bad veins get by for years by wearing one of the elastic stockings. Others, in the morning, apply an cl astic bandage beginning at the foot and winding it up wards almost to the knee. Many people write to ask if they should have their veins injected with some irri tant drug that will cause these veins to plug up. I have asked experts about this and they advise against it. The opera tion is much better and safer and the results are far more likely to be lasting. Ichthyosis, or 'Fish Skin' Many people write to ask for a treatment for a dry, scaly skin, called by doctors, ichthyosis. Unfortunately, this is a condition that the person was born with. A friend of mine had it, as did two of his brothers. What is sad is that so many of the dis tressing troubles that people tell me about are inherited -and hence not likely to be changed by any medicine. If a person is born without the normal little fat-forming glands in his skin, there is no way in which a physician can put any in. About all he can do is to advise the person to keep rubbing into his skin an oily lotion or ointment. This can make him more comfort table. For some, the hay fever sea son is coming up: for others, it s already here. If you would like the leaflet, "Asthma, Al lergy and Hay Fever," by Dr. Alvarez, send 25 cents and a stamped, self-addressed envel ope with your request to Dr, WaltPr C. Alvarez, Dipt MMT, The Register and Tri bune Syndicate, Box 957, Dcs By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor New York-ilPD-The person who merely accumulates pos sessions is a type unto him- sell, said Dr. ftlH? Richard --1 H. Phillips, J whose scien- ' f tific field is people. He is not a saver. Thrift has ' nothing to do J with it Vtrt ie htr j not a hoarder. Deiot smith Hoarders ward off fears with posses sions. Nor is he a collector. Collections bolster the minds of collectors. The accumlulator, said Phillips, is basically an inde cisive person. He won't com mit himself to a clear, real istic understanding for his special attitude toward pos sessions. Accumulators are common among people; hence the sci entific interest in Phillip's ef forts to say what makes them tick. He was adding a new term to the scientific vocab ulary, by the way. Thereto fore science has not distin guished accumulators from collectors. Collectors Different Accumulators may confuse you by calling themselves collectors but they're entirely different. "The collector is disturbed by empty spaces which ought to be filled," Phillips said "the accumu lator is plagued by full spaces which ought to be emptied." Collectors take great pride in their collections which have been carefully chosen and classified, with each item somehow related to all the others. An accumulator's ac cumulation is a hodge podge which has been "acquired and retained with a real avoid ance of any kind of definitive thinking." And his "relationship to his objects is not one of pride and pleasure but rather one of displeasure and mild shame. He rarely exhibits his objects. Instead he attempts to hide them In the attic, cellar, closet or garage." Meanwhile, he is excusing himself by trying to believe that "one day these things may come in handy." Accumulator Displeased The accumulator is dis pleased with his accumulation because it is a nuisance, .pnii lips went on. His sense of shame comes from the sus picion that he is being fool ish or that other people will think the accumulating of useless objects is "peculiar." "There is in the possessions which any individual acquires and retains an element of self-definition," Phillips said in reporting his work to the American Medical Associa tion. "In classifying an ob ject as 'appropriate -to-me' 'inappropriate-to-me' he commits himself. Each time a person throws something away or actively acquires something new he is operating in terms of his self-concept." And that's the trouble with accumulators - they have a shaky self-concept at best, and so they can't make up their minds to throw away posses sions which are ' no longer useful or refrain from taking on new possessions for which they have no use.. He recalled that when Ma- hatma Ghandi died his pos sessions amounted only to a watch, spectacles, sandals, two books, a pitcher, three figurines, a knife, two bowls and two spoons. 'And Ghandi was certainly one of the most simple, clear ly and completely self-defined men in the history of man kind," said Phillips who is Canadian Results ConcernsNeuberger Washington - IITD - Sen. Maurine B. Neuberger ID Ore.) Tuesday voiced con cern over the Canadian elec tion result. She said in a statement "it is tragic that Canadian lead ership will be subject to the dictation of .he irresponsible Social Credit party which now holds the balance of pow er." Mrs. Neuberger said the elections mean for the "sorely pressed Northwest lumber in dustry . . . the end to the hope that the Canadian gov ernment will move to lessen the competitive advantage of Canadian lumbermen over their American counterparts." She also said the election means there will be no rati fication of the Columbia riv er project in the "foresee able future" and that "we will be forced to adopt alter native programs for the de velopment of Columbia riv er power." Four Jets Collide In Air Over Germany Bonn -UPD- Four Superstar jet fighters of the West Ger man air force collided in flight Tuesday and crashed into a mine quarry near Co logne. All four pilots died in the crash. Klamath Dusting Pilot Killed Bucyrus, N.D.-IUPO-A 28-year-old Oregon man died Tuesday in a crop-spraying plane accident. A plane piloted by Ronald Lee Williams of Klamath Falls, crashed on the Robert Stecker farm north of here. Williams was an employee of the Hettinger, N.D., flying service. a member of the faculty of the State University of New York at Syracuse. . un. jl u kit w nai coma tlie English possibly mean by "Gordon's and splash?" Splash" is the English way of saying "soda water." Mixing it with Gordon's Gin is a popular pastime on the other side of the Atlantic. Most Americans prefer "tonic and ice" as a mixer. But on the choice of gin complete ac cord. Gordon's. Its distinc tive dryness and flavour seem to tip the balance. You'll find these qualities wherever you call for Gordon's by name; for every bottle is still based on AlexanderGordon's orig inal 1769 formula. Could this be why Gordon's is the biggest-selling gin in Eng land, America., the world? $4 35 VsQf. $070 Pint Distilled f i LondonDry f f jGlH tismuo ionook nir tin. toox Muttu spiiiis DiSTiuro rnoii cum w floor. coiooH S oar cm co. no.. timM. . 4. phoouci Of U SX X-i Agree Contractors To One-Year Pacts Portland-H'PD-The business agent of the striking Iron Workers' Union said Tuesday about 20 independent contrac tors have agreed to new one year contracts. John O'Halloran said terms call for a wage increase of 33 cents an hour to $4 25 for structural workers and 38 cents to $4.10 for reinforcing workers. The union has a meeting scheduled today with Associ ated General Contractors. It proposed the one-year con tracts last week. Earlier it sought a two-year agreement. Iron Workers' picketing spread to John Day dam and to a swimming pool at Pen dleton. Earlier, work on the Standard Plaza in Portland and at state institutions was affected as well as smaller projects. Portland-TOPD - Appointment of former Congressman Charles Porter as legal ad vi.r to the Young Demo cratic Clubs of Oregon has been announced by President Merlyn Gubser, Eugene. ATTENTION HOMEOWNERS New savings from State Farm! See our ad on the sports pages, then contact me! r, Dive Estergard 617 E. Jackson 773-7718 STATE FARM Flt ind Cisuilry Co. 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